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Played an art walk last night at Embellish Salon
with the urban orchestra but that’s not what this is
about. Preceding our performance was Matt Coughlin
and an accompanying violinist. I enjoyed his voice
and his range was quite impressive, the violin meshed
smoothly as well.  A large majority of their performance
was enhanced by a father daughter team dancing and
spinning to the mood up front. It was quite sweet.

Just before us came local former fashion designer and
artist/poet Daniel Blue, a part of indie band Motopony.
{ Aided by others, one could confidently say he’s changed
the scene of this town. } But I’m spewing about musicality
now. I will have you listen for yourself down there but
it’s not quite like seeing him live. His voice is difficult to
describe other than lovely and terrifying, not for it’s
sound but for the power he can exude and the grasp
he has on any listener with it.

Listen please.
I particularly enjoyed King of Diamonds.
There is a video in the works for June which
is on the myspace.

Drei und Fertig

From Freedom Fest, this is the last of three rolls. I’ve got the
blur action mostly under control this time but I miss the light leaks in the first roll.

How You Facebook: Remix!

Your profile pictures are constantly changing, and so are mine, so what better reason for a follow-up? Besides, it was a hoot last time. R-r-r-remix!

Thanks to James, Frances, Aaron, Annie, Megan, Torbjorn, Naomi, Sarah, Robin, Shayne and Carson.

In The Studio: Beautiful Angle

Beautiful Angle is incredible. Tacoma’s guerilla letterpress duo, made up of Tom Llewellyn and Lance Kagey, have been plastering the city’s telephone poles for six years now. We are privileged enough to know both Tom and Lance, and are proud to bring you the tour of their studio.

Lance takes down posters that have dried.

The inspiration wall, including work by local and famous artists.

Lance and Chelsey discuss a poster design for an upcoming event.

The press bed.

Lance’s ink-mixing station sits atop cases and cases of type. The clothespins hold posters for drying.

A smaller inspiration board.

A face of wooden type and a guide to the case.

The X from Beautiful Angle’s most recent Christmas broadside.

A shelf of paper, misprints and surplus posters.

Sometimes tweezers are the easiest way to handle a small piece of lead for letterspacing.

Chelsey inks a locked bed of type.

Lance runs some lovely paperstock through his smallest press.

The piece printed on chipboard. It’s all about the impression.

A cabinet of Beautiful Angle masterpieces.

A Lance Kagey original from 1983.

Studio lights above the largest press.

See the entire collection and buy broadsides at beautifulangle.com.

This is About Dear

Not a part of Dear Records
but still (or once were) locals are as follows:

So for the ones that don’t have links, just tap on this guy . Click on albums to hear samples of their sound and if you ever have the chance to see any of these artists, grasp it.